Relentless attacks of Pope Francis on tradition

Bergoglio's Traditio Catholica abolition update- and this was already four years ago.

We come out with this editorial for a sad update, perhaps the umpteenth. We have been "updated" by a brief communiqué from Monsignor Eleuterio Favella, see here, which reads as follows:

"Tomorrow morning, 21 January, contrary to an ancient and long-standing tradition, the Pope will not bless the lambs from whose wool the pallii of metropolitans are woven.

After having been moved in recent years from its usual location in the Chapel of Urban VIII of the Apostolic Palace to the much more anonymous hall of St. Martha, the brief and significant ceremony - which evidently no longer means anything to the current occupants of the Vatican - has been suppressed without apparent justification, in the good graces of the Trappist Fathers of the Three Fountains Monastery, who raise the lambs, of the Lateran Chapter - holder of the ancient census - who formally deliver them to the pontiff, and of the Benedictine Nuns of St. Cecilia in Trastevere, who are in charge of the blessing. Cecilia in Trastevere, entrusted for centuries with the task of raising the beasts, shearing them and obtaining the wool needed for weaving, which they still do with zeal and acumen.

Albeit with some modifications, the sacred ceremony - of purely Roman tradition - had survived the ritual changes of the post-Council period, and was particularly loved even by pontiffs who were not Roman, namely John Paul II and Benedict XVI, who did not fail to show his well-known affection for animals on the occasion.

After the gradual downsizing in recent years, this suppression is another step, small but paradigmatic, on the path of unstoppable degradation embraced by the 'outgoing church' which evidently no longer knows what to do with sacred signs."

We went to peek into the updates of the Pontiff's Liturgical Ceremonies and indeed - for tomorrow - no more action by the Pope is planned.... For 21 January 2018, the Pope was on an Apostolic Journey and therefore "excused absent".... while for 21 January 2017 he was there and the "Presentation of the blessed lambs on the Feast of St. Agnes" was marked in the Calendar.. While he was also absent on 21 January 2014. So it should be official: for tomorrow 21 January, although the Pope is present and there are no work commitments, he will no longer bless the lambs for the palliations of the Metropolitan Archbishops. That's how it is, let's face it....

This sad news brings us to update the sad list of abolitions of important events for the Church, which we have already mentioned here.

- Abolished the Pope's public Mass for the Solemnity of the Assumption into Heaven on 15 August;

- abolished Eucharistic Adoration with the Pontiff during apostolic visits or WYD, in meetings with young people;

- imposed on the Church the First Vespers for Creation on 1 September, in the presence of the Supreme Pontiff;

- abolished the First Vespers of Advent - with or without the Pontiff;

- abolished the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament by the Supreme Pontiff during visits to Churches;

- abolished Eucharistic Adoration during religious meetings in St. Peter's Square. During the Jubilee Year of Mercy, not a single public adoration of the Blessed Sacrament was performed;

- abolished the presence of the Supreme Pontiff at the only public Roman Procession of Corpus Christi, when the Popes in the past, imprisoned in Vatican City, limited themselves to undertaking the service in the Square, so that the faithful would not miss this precious witness: Peter, humbly kneeling before the King of kings.

- abolished the use of doves for the last Sunday in January, at the Angelus, for the customary greeting to Catholic Action, replaced by the throwing of... coloured balloons...

- abolished the Papal Blessing for the First of the Year at the Angelus, out of respect for non-believers (??!!) 

- abolished today the traditional Papal Blessing of lambs for the composition of the Archbishops' holy pallium...

What to say? Let us pray! And let us heed the Pauline warnings that no one preaches any more:

Second Letter of Saint Paul to Timothy Chapter 4

[1] I charge thee, before God and Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead, by his coming, and his kingdom:
Testificor coram Deo, et Jesu Christo, qui judicaturus est vivos et mortuos, per adventum ipsius, et regnum ejus :

[2] Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine.
praedica verbum, insta opportune, importune : argue, obsecra, increpa in omni patientia, et doctrina.

[3] For there shall be a time, when they will not endure sound doctrine; but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears:
Erit enim tempus, cum sanam doctrinam non sustinebunt, sed ad sua desideria coacervabunt sibi magistros, prurientes auribus,

[4] And will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables.

et a veritate quidem auditum avertent, ad fabulas autem convertentur. 

We leave you with this short video... ad perpetua memoriam....

"Francis, Rebuild my Church!" as Saint Francis was told at the Chapel of Saint Damiano